Select Internet Resources for Physician’s Core

Select Internet Resources for Physician’s Core

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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Click on About AHRQ then Clinical Information to obtain website links for practice guidelines--past and present. Information for healthcare professionals, researchers and policymakers, consumers is also presented. The site also includes links to other relevant medical information sites from MedlinePlus geared towards consumers to the Institute of Medicine report on medical errors. http://www.ahcpr.gov

AidsInfo
National Institutes of Health site that includes HIV drugs and vaccine information. http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Travel information, vaccines and immunization links are among the drug information links available. http://www.cdc.gov

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM)
Use this site to learn more about evidence-based medicine principles such as level of evidence, EBM terminology (under glossary) and EBM tools (includes some downloads). This site is also a portal offering links to some other EBM sites.
http://www.cebm.net

Drug Information Pathfinder
Links to many federal drug sites such as Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and U.S. FDA's Web site for reporting adverse drug events, as well as other non-government drug information sites.
http://www.fda.gov/cder/Offices/DDI/pathfinder.htm

Drug Prices and Patient Assistance
http://www.pillbot.com
http://www.pharmacychecker.com
https://www.rxaminer.com

BenefitsCheckUp
A National Council of Aging site that helps those over 55 locate available federal, state, some public and private drug assistance sources.
http://www.benefitscheckuprx.org

Needy Meds
Use this site to find the right patient assistance programs that can cover full price of a drug for eligible patients.
http://www.needymeds.com

HealthyNJ
Health care information for New Jersey consumers, policy makers and healthcare professionals. http://www.healthynj.org

ImmunoFacts
From makers of Facts & Comparisons comes this gateway to current vaccine recommendations from U.S. and Canada, vaccine trials, and more vaccine-related news.
http://www.immunofacts.com

Institute for Safe Medication Practices
http://www.ismp.org/

Lab Tests Online
This is a peer-reviewed public resource that provides normal values for lab tests, conditions or disease related to the test being ordered, results and information on lab test centers and personnel in labs. http://www.labtestsonline.org

Martindale's Calculators On-Line Center
This site includes multi-disciplinary calculators useful to health professionals such as links to a Total Parenteral Nutrition Calculator from Washington University School of Medicine. http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html

Prescribing Reference
Register for free access to a Web version of this product also available via print subscription. Producers of the product choose to include the top 3,000 most prescribed drugs according to IMS [an independent research company] market research. Noteworthy sections include a place to search for drug manufactures’ contact information, as well as the company’s corresponding Medical Affairs phone number. There is also a “New Products” section, “Charts” on such topics as common antibiotics for the pediatric population [dosing information, flavor of antibiotic included], and some “Guidelines” with reference links back to HSTAT [NLM’s Health Services/Technology Assessment Database] and AHCPR [Agency for Health Care Research and Quality].
http://www.prescribingreference.com

Internet Sources of Practice Guidelines**
National Guideline Clearinghouse This is an excellent resource for finding practice guidelines from many organizations, collected and organized by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the American Association of Health Plans. Not all the guidelines listed here are evidence-based – many any are consensus-based (definitions for different types of guidelines are found at this site.) There are Web and PDA versions of this information available.
http://www.guideline.gov

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US Preventive Services Task Force
This is a compilation of prevention guidelines, developed by an independent panel of experts in primary care and prevention that systematically reviews the evidence of effectiveness and develops recommendations for clinical preventive services. They use a very rigorous method to develop these guidelines.
http://www.ahcpr.gov/clinic/uspstfix.htm

**For more practice guidelines see MD Consult and SUMSearch. In addition, InfoRetriever presents only evidence-based guidelines. You can also search Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed for guidelines by ANDing practice guideline.pt. or practice guideline [ptyp], respectively, to your search.